Critics who wallpapered The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with references to Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia missed the point entirely. Alfredo Garcia was a twilight howl of pain and rage by a filmmaker who was losing his vision, while Three Burials is a focused meditation by a director who is just finding his. Tommy Lee Jones directed and starred in the picture about a contemporary Texas rancher determined to administer a kind of justice, but it is by no means
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